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One thing that causes the problem you described is that VM's
invocation of the "movemail" program silently fails, perhaps because
it doesn't appear on your shell seach PATH, or perhaps becuase because
the movemail program doesn't have permission to create the lock files
in /usr/mail.

Try the following:

1. in your .emacs file insert this:

;; Use the movemail program distributed with Emacs,
;; explicitly, if it can be found.
;;
(let ((official-movemail-program (concat exec-directory "movemail")))
  (if (file-exists-p official-movemail-program)
      (setq vm-movemail-program official-movemail-program)
    (setq vm-movemail-program "movemail")))

2. Then, either:
        chmod o+w /usr/mail
   Or:
        chgrp mail /usr/local/emacs/etc/movemail
        chmod g+s  /usr/local/emacs/etc/movemail
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